Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 128: Documents Relating to Archbishop Cranmer

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Summary
MS 128 contains a collection of sixteenth-century documents bound together due to their connections with Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. The volume contains a collection of accusations against clergy opposed to Cranmer, accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley in Oxford (including a request for payment of money still owing) and a biography of Archbishop Cranmer.
Contents
Articles against several of the clergy prepared for Archbishop Cranmer -- Accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley -- Biography of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

Description

Alternative title Documents Relating to Abp Cranmer
Type of resource mixed material
Extent pp. 442 numbered
Date created [ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language English
Material Paper
Height (mm) 314
Width (mm) 210
Foliation ff. i-ii + pp. 1-2 (3-4 missing) + 5-166 + 166a-d + 167-264 + 264a-265a + 265-324 + 324a-325a + 325-436 + 436a + 437a +437-442 + ff. iii-iv

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hx345qh6815/MS_128.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm078zv1593/128.pdf
Contains
Title
Articles against several of the clergy prepared for Archbishop Cranmer. 1-364
Nasmith
Articles against several of the clergy, interrogatories for, and depositions of Dr. John Willoughby, Robert Serles, William Gardiner, Edmund Shethur, Richard Parkhurst, Arthur St. Leger, John Mills, William Hunt, William Cocks, John Thatcher, &c. 1-364
Note
The occasion and import of these examinations are explained by archbishop Parker in the following note at p. 20. Memorandum that king Henry beinge divers times by bushop Gardiner enformed against bushoppe Cranmer, and the saide Gardiner havinge his instruccions of D. London a stoute and filthie prebendary of Windesor, who theare convicted did weare a paper openly, and rodde throughe the towne with his face towards the horse taile, and also had informacion of Mr. Moyles, Mr. Baker and sum others promooted by the said Cranmer, whose tales he uttred to the king, who perceiving the malice trusted the said Cranmer with thexamination of thes matters, which he did of divers persons as by this doth appeare.
(2) No. 1 has a partial index in Cranmer's hand
See Strype, Cranmer chap. xxv, xxvi, and Appendix xxxiii
Title
Accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley. 365-404
Nasmith
The booke of the expences of D. Cranmer, Latymer and Ridley for the time of their imprisonment in Oxford and of their execution, delivered into the hands of the most reverend father Matthew archbushop of Canterbury by Thomas Wincle and John Wells of Oxford, sometime bayliffs there. 365-404
Note
Before the accompts are
(367) (1) A letter from Lawrence Humphrey to the archbishop in favour of the bailiffs to whom 40£. was still due on this account
(369) (2) A petition of Wincle and Wells praying the payment of the same
No. 2 partly in Strype chap. xxi (end) with the letters of Humfrey and Wincle
Title
Biography of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. 405-442
Nasmith
A declaracion concerning the progeny with the manner and the trade of the life and bryngyng up of that most reverent father in God Thomas Cranmer late archbishop of Canterbury, and by what order and meanes he came to his preferment and dignity. 405-442
Note
This life was written at the desire of archbishop Parker by one who had been a domestic of Cranmer's, and though concise contains many curious anecdotes, most of which have been inserted by Strype in his life of Cranmer
No. 3 printed in Narratives of the Reformation, Nichols, Camden Society p. 238. See also Strype, Cranmer, chap. xxx etc.
TJames vac.
Stanley Misc. 7
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ps908cx9813
Location MS 128
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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